Getting started developing on Mac OSX

[Jacob Lyles]

Freemind seems like the perfect tool for my needs. Unfortunately, bug #1204
http://sourceforge.net/p/freemind/bugs/1204/ makes freemind virtually
unusable on my mac system. As I'm a software engineer by trade, I thought
I'd dive in and be the change I want to see in the world.

Unfortunately, I am having trouble building the repo on mac. I'm running
OSX 10.10.3 and the following Java:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_71"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.71-b01, mixed mode)

I run ant runmac in the freemind repository, and I get the following
stacktrace:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/jlyles/code/freemind/freemind/build.xml:272: The following error
occurred while executing this line:
/Users/jlyles/code/freemind/freemind/build.xml:295:
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException:
/Users/jlyles/code/freemind/freemind/Info.plist
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixCopyFile.copy(UnixCopyFile.java:520)
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.copy(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:253)
at java.nio.file.Files.copy(Files.java:1227)
at com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask.copy(AppBundlerTask.java:566)
at com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask.copyRuntime(AppBundlerTask.java:357)
at com.oracle.appbundler.AppBundlerTask.execute(AppBundlerTask.java:290)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.SingleCheckExecutor.executeTargets(SingleCheckExecutor.java:38)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Ant.execute(Ant.java:441)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.CallTarget.execute(CallTarget.java:105)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:292)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor4.invoke(Unknown Source)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:456)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1393)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1364)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1248)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:851)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:235)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

Any advice on how to fix?

[Christian Foltin]

Hi,

are you on the Branch 1.1.0?

BR, Chris

[Jacob Lyles]

I figured out how to get past this.

First I ran touch Info.plist to resolve the file not found error (perhaps an empty file should be included in the repo?)

Then I set $JAVA_HOME according to instructions here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6588390/where-is-java-home-on-osx-yosemite-10-10-mavericks-10-9-mountain-lion-10

Then it will successfully compile!

Unfortunately, the compiled .app package will not run. I get the following error on startup: screenshot

[Christian Foltin]

Hi,

I don't have the Info.plist on my host....
Please, try ant clean, or even better, a new git clone and report here.

HTH, Chris